"Michael Moore's Joy"

I just read Michael Moore's blog entitled "Goodbye, GM." It is really difficult for me to understand someone's joy over the death of a legitimate, legal business that employed tens of thousands of people all over the world, raised the standard of living for millions, and for 100 years attempted to supply a useful product for a free people who wanted the product. Yet in the blog he clearly states: "So here we are at the death of General Motors. The company's body is not yet cold, and I find myself filled with--dare I say it--joy."

He goes on to blame GM for "misery, divorce, alcoholism, homelessness, physical and mental debilitation, and drug addiction to the people I grew up with." A corporation did all this? People are not responsible for their own actions? Does Mr. Moore then admit that his own physical shortcomings are not due to his own lack of self-control but rather to some diabolical scheme of GM?

You just have to read his blog (www.michaelmoore.com). He may have a few good points about some problems that GM brought on themselves. But at the end, GM's demise is the result of more people preferring to buy other products they saw as superior, not because of some government decree. When government operates outside of its constitutional authority, it's decrees, programs, or "reforms" do not make problems smaller or improved.

The long and short of his diatribe is that Michael Moore believes in man-made global warming, and that free markets and private businesses (oil companies) are to blame for all our ills. He contends that we need his ideas and more government to better manage our lives. Only massive federal projects (like "light rail" bullet trains and smaller electric or hybrid cars) are the solution. (I wonder what kind of car he drives. Does he drive a Toyota Prius, or one of other the hybrid cars currently on the market?)

If a free people want something, it will happen faster, cheaper, and better than anything a centralized government can provide. This is the lesson from history. Facts are stubborn things.